TWRP RECOVERY INFO

WARNING!

Warranty may be void of your device if you follow the procedures given on this page.

You only are responsible for your device. We won’t be liable if any damage occurs to your device and/or its components.

GUIDE: TWRP RECOVERY ON SPRINT HTC ONE MAX T6SPR

Before you begin with guide instructions below, make sure your android device is adequately charged — at least 50% battery of the device.

STEP 0: CHECK DEVICE MODEL NO.

To make sure your device is eligible with this, you must first confirm its model no. in ‘About device’ option under Settings. Another way to confirm model no. is by looking for it on the packaging box of your device. It must be T6SPR!

Do not use the procedures discussed here on any other variant of One Max (Including T6UL, T6DUG and T6VZW) or any other device of HTC or any other company. You have been warned!

STEP 1: BACKUP YOUR DEVICE

Back up important data and stuff before you start playing around here as there are chances you might lose your apps and app-data (app settings, game progress, etc.), and in rare case, files on the internal memory, too.

For help on Backup and Restore, check out our exclusive page on that linked right below.

STEP 2: INSTALL LATEST DRIVER

You must have proper and working driver installed on your windows computer to be able to successfully flash TWRP Recovery on your HTC One Max. If you are not sure, follow the link below for a definitive guide for installing driver for your HTC One Max on your computer.

STEP 3: UNLOCK BOOTLOADER

Skip this step if your device is already bootloader unlocked.

Use must first unlock the bootloader on your HTC One Max before proceeding with the guide below. Without unlocking the bootloader you won’t be able to use fastboot commands to flash the recovery on your device.

STEP 4: INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS

DOWNLOADS

Download the one click TWRP installer zip file given below. Transfer installer zip file to a separate folder on your computer just to keep things tidy.

ONE CLICK TWRP INSTALLER

STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE

Important Note: Backup important files stored on internal SD card of your device, so that in case a situation arises requiring you to do a factory reset after flashing TWRP Recovery, which might delete internal sd card too, your files will remain safe on PC.

Connect your phone to PC with a USB cable and if a pop-up screen shows up on phone asking you to Allow USB debugging for the computer, make sure you tick the checkbox and tap OK.

On your One Max, go to Settings » select Battery and in the Battery menu make sure Fast boot is unchecked. Un-check it if it is enabled.

Extract the installer file htc-one-max-t6spr-twrp-recovery.zip(using 7-zip free software, preferably). You’ll get the following files, and one folder:

api (folder)

1-click-twrp-recovery-installer.bat

adb.exe

AdbWinApi.dll

AdbWinUsbApi.dll

fastboot.exe

openrecovery-twrp-2.6.3.0-t6spr.img

source.properties

Double-click/Run the ‘1-click-twrp-recovery-installer.bat’ file and follow the simple on-screen instructions like ‘Press any key to continue..’ to install TWRP recovery on your One Max.

Once the TWRP recovery is flashed successfully on your HTC One Max, your device will reboot automatically into your newly flashed TWRP Recovery.└Note: In case the script gets stuck on < waiting for device > (see image below) for more than a minute or so, then it means you don’t have proper drivers installed on your computer for your One Max. Follow the drivers installation guide provided above for troubleshooting driver and other connectivity issues.

That’s all! You have successfully flashed TWRP Recovery on your HTC One Max T6SPR. It was easy to install TWRP Recovery on your HTC One Max, right? Let us know how you plan to use it in comments below.